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Pamela Freeman is an award-winning author. Her books have been shortlisted for the State Literary Awards, the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Awards, and the Koala Awards. They range from picture books to fantasy for primary and lower secondary students to non-fiction for teenagers. She is best known for her series of fantasy novels, the Floramonde books (The Willow Tree's Daughter, Windrider and The Centre of Magic) and for an associated junior novel, Victor's Quest.

Freeman came to writing for children through her work as a scriptwriter for ABC Television, working on programs such as For the Juniors, Swap Shop, Satch! Your Language and PowerHouse. She began publishing short stories through the NSW School Magazine, and some of those stories formed the basis for her first book, The Willow Tree's Daughter.

As well as writing children's novels, Freeman works as a business communications consultant, technical writer, scriptwriter and writer for the Internet. She has worked as a scriptwriter for the ABC and the Powerhouse Museum, and taught communications and creative writing at the University of Technology, Sydney and University of New South Wales. In 1998 she received a Fellowship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to do research in the US and Canada.

Freeman also writes for adults, and the first of her fantasy books for adult readers, Blood Ties, appeared in 2007. She has a doctorate in Creative Arts from the University of Technology, Sydney.